snowball

kartopu

Karın sıkıştırılıp yuvarlak hâle getirilmiş biçimi; çoğu zaman oyun oynarken atılır.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A round lump of snow pressed together, often for throwing in play.

• She threw a snowball at me.
• The children had a snowball fight in the garden.
• My snowball melted before I could throw it.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: throw a snowball, snowball fight, make a snowball

kartopu pastası

Genellikle içi kremalı, dışı çikolata ve kurutulmuş Hindistan ceviziyle kaplı küçük pasta.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A small cake, usually filled with cream and covered with chocolate and dried coconut.

• I ate a snowball with my tea.
• The bakery sells snowballs filled with fresh cream.
• Would you like a chocolate snowball for dessert?

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: chocolate snowball, coconut snowball, cream-filled snowball

çığ gibi büyümek, hızla büyümek

Çok hızlı büyümek; çoğu zaman kontrol edilmesi zor hâle gelmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To grow bigger very quickly, often becoming difficult to control.

• Our debts began to snowball.
• The problem snowballed into a crisis within days.
• Costs are snowballing as the project falls further behind.

Nasıl kullanılır: snowball into something (A small argument snowballed into a major dispute.)

Eş anlamlılar: escalate, grow, multiply

Zıt anlamlılar: shrink, diminish

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: snowball into something, snowball out of control, costs snowball